Adrian Borland

Cover of Adrian Borland's "Cinematic"
Recorded with permission of Wally Salem.

Cinematic (cover of Adrian Borland)

This is a cover of "Winning" .... The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
Rest in peace Adrian

Winning - tribute to Adrian Borland

I was asked by my friend Johnny if I'd be interested in recording a cover version of the Sounds 1981 Single 'Hothouse'. Here are the results, in the process of recording and mixing this the original became one of my all time favourite tracks.

If you like this, please check out the album 'From the Lions Mouth' where the original features as a bonus track: http://www.amazon.co.uk/From-The-Lions-Mouth-Sound/dp/B000062R78

Hothouse

Cochlea

A veces (To Adrian Borland & The Sound)

from 'There Must Be A Hole In Your Memory - A Tribute to The Sound & Adrian Borland' 2014 The Beautiful Music. Used with permission.

1000 Mexicans - Night Cascade (Adrian Borland cover)

Winning - A tribute to the Sound & Adrian Borland

Adrian Borland - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover)

After the sudden death of Adrian Borland, White Rose Transmission seemed to be doomed as being history, but Carlo carried on a few years later with his good friend Rob Keijzer on board. Together they recorded a collection of acoustic idea’s and stripped down these songs to the bare basics, which resulted in the third WRT album ‘Bewitched and Bewildered’ in 2006. For the next album Rob got in touch with Frank Weyzig, a long time friend and songwriter, known for his work with ‘Clan of Xymox’ and ‘Born for Bliss’. Maybe coincidence, or just faith but Frank was also a huge Adrian Borland fan himself and liked the idea of working together with Rob and Carlo on a follow up album for White Rose Transmission. Already after a first session in Frank’s studio in Amsterdam, they immediately knew that there was some magic going on! Slowly but gradually the project evolved into something really solid. 

During one of these sessions Frank worked on an old Adrian Borland demo recording and built a complete new arrangement around Adrian’s original vocal. Talking about magic! The result of this is a mesmerizing version of Adrian’s epic song ‘Foreign land’… From that moment on the complete album was getting shaped automatically, almost as if the project was being guided by an invisible hand. 

White Rose Transmission's new album 'Spiders in The Mind Web' is already being marked by insiders as an intruiging and timeless document. A concept album with no beginning and without an end. White Rose Transmission will keep your ears captured in a translucant and sometimes surreal musical environment, with music influences ranging from Pink Floyd to Jeff Buckley and beyond. So yes, you better buckle up and prepare yourself for a trip into the Mind Web...

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/spidersinthemindweb



Foreign Land by White Rose Transmission (vocal by Adrian Borland)

From the debut album of White Rose Transmission. Florian Bratmann was responsible for the lovely song-writing on this début, the piano melodies as well as some guitar arrangements were written by him. Adrian Borland was responsible for the weirdness of sounds and we wrote most of the lyrics together during brain storm sessions at night in our house in the countryside of Bremen. The idea behind the name of the band was from the collaboration of the members. A mixture of romanticist, and weirdos who only came out at night ;-) Based on the idea behind the  white rose movement (Sophie & Hans Scholl) an anti Nazi propaganda movement during world war 2. The story of the nightingale and the rose by Oscar Wilde and off course Adrian as a Joy Division fan himself put  the word transmission to it.
I still look back on a wonderful and creative collaboration of beautiful minds.

White Rose Transmission - In your Hands

Carlo van Putten with WRT - debut album in collaboration with Adrian Borland

straight from desk live-recording 
by FOH rainer assmann, thx

carlo van putten ... voc,  hermann eugster ... drums,  peter koerfer ... bass, 
pete brough ... acoustic guitar & b.vox,  ralf aussem ... guitar & loop 

adrian borland (the sound) / white rose transmission - cover  
performed live @ zirkus messajero / moenchengladbach, germany 15.dec2012 



Dead Guitars - Dead Guitars (live @ zirkus messajero) dec2012

our cover on greatest british new wave hero Adrian Borland

Adrian Kelvin Borland

1957-1999
Adrian Borland, was singer/guitarist and main songwriter with The Sound, a band which between 1979 and 1987 released seven albums. Adrian released five solo albums, first together with his new backing band The Citizens, later on his own. In 1995 he brought out his first cd with White Rose Transmission, his collaboration with Carlo van Putten from The Convent. On April 26th 1999 Adrian Borland committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.

Adrian Borland

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